May 4, 2005:

A “Hot Pocket” for GBMINI#3

For storage between the downtubes, I still think the original “Hot Pocket” is the best; I have now tried various factory solutions, but on GBMINI#3 I have gone back to my old favourite.
I decided to buy a new “Hot Pocket” for GBMINI#3, rather than recycling the old one from #2, and I (part-)installed it recently:

(I have not yet velcro’ed the sides into place)

Disappointingly, the quality is nowhere near as good as the original one - you can see in this before installation picture that the lining of the Hot Pocket is quite loose in the new one (on the original, there are no untidy wrinkles).
So maybe I will clean up the old one and re-use that; but you can’t really see the wrinkles once it is installed, so perhaps it is OK anyway.

A little naughty of TVA to still show the original well made product on their website, but sell an inferior one (and not at a lower price, either!)